TACOMA, Wash. – Whitman College's 25th-ranked women's tennis team added another resounding Northwest Conference victory to its season total Saturday morning, routing host University of Puget Sound 9-0 to record the Whitties' sixth shutout on the season. Later in the day at Seattle University the Division III Whitman women dropped a 5-2 non-conference decision to the D-I Red Hawks.

The early win over the Loggers (2-15, 1-10 NWC) lifts Whitman's conference mark to 9-2, but the loss to Seattle leaves the Whitties' overall record at 12-9 at the end of the day.

The morning victory at UPS opened with sweeping wins in the three doubles matches as Hanna Greenberg and Mary Hill at No. 1, Lindsey Brodeck and Allie Wallin at 2, and Jenna Gilbert and Jana Klages-Miller at No. 3 combined to drop just five games in helping their team roll to a 3-0 lead.

Even more powerful in the singles, Whitman's six representatives each won in straight sets and combined to surrender only six games combined to finish off the Loggers quickly.

Whitman made the drive from Tacoma to Seattle for the afternoon's non-conference match and picked up gratifying wins in both singles and doubles.

The Brodeck and Wallin pairing captured a win at 3-doubles, downing Seattle's Audrey Scott and Kailyn Skjonsby by the count of 6-2. Wallin closed out an unbeaten day taking a come-from-behind singles victory from Kristen James at No. 4 by scores of 4-6, 6-3 and 6-4.

The other win came from Lori Sheng at 6-singles. Sheng, like Wallin, rallied from a 6-4 opening set loss to even the match with a 7-5 second-set win. The first-year then finished off the Red Hawks' Skjonsby, 1-0 (10-5), in a third-set supertiebreak to earn her second singles victory for the day. Against UPS Sheng had raced through a 6-0, 6-0 win at 3-singles.

Whitman's Saturday victory clinches second place in the regular-season conference standings regardless of Sunday's results at Pacific Lutheran University, which is 5-9 overall and 4-7 in the league heading into the match against the visiting Whitties.